A Typology-Scorecard Synthesized from the Current Scholarship of Many Authors

by Stephen W. Richey

SPECIAL NOTE: The Arab People

The Arab people, who arose in what is now Saudi Arabia, were horse nomads with a culture similar to the horse nomads of
central Asia. They had frequent, often violent, interaction with the central Asian nomads. Probably their most significant impact was the spread of
their Moslem (Islamic) faith among the central Asian nomads and the sedentary Iranians. First, the Islamic Arab
Umayyad Dynasty, and then its successor, the Islamic Arab Abbasid Dynasty, controlled all the Middle East, north Africa, and parts of central Asia when
at the peak of their power around 737 and 771 AD respectively. (The Abbasids violently overthrew the Umayyads in 747-750 AD.) The capital city of the
Umayyads was Damascus and the capital city of the Abbasids was Baghdad.

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